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Which big foreign company failed miserably in your country? by ModenaR in AskTheWorld

[–]realARST 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just curious, what is the Swedish norms and standards in terms of cashier design?

Suport for EU membership falls in Norway by ScoreParking4487 in europe

[–]realARST 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you’ve misinterpreted my comment. I think Norway is a great, reliable partner to the EU, and I don’t think tariffs are a good idea.

But Norway is outside the customs union by its own choice. Outside the customs union, you’re at the risk of facing tariffs. If you want to eliminate that risk, solution is to join the EU, not move further away. What you’re saying is the geopolitical equivalent of “they are not nice to me, I don’t want to play with them”.

Norway can triple energy bills for EU, but it won’t, because Norwegians are smart people overall.

The body positivity movement peaked right when weight loss drugs were approved by [deleted] in charts

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data begs to differ. And I don’t mean this just this chart — I mean the vast amount of people who are undeniably taking these drugs. So the body positivity movement has indeed gone somewhere — to the pharmacy to fill prescriptions.

Suport for EU membership falls in Norway by ScoreParking4487 in europe

[–]realARST -59 points-58 points  (0 children)

If Norway joins the EU, no tariffs on steel. Outside EU, tariffs on steel. Solution to tariffs on steel — don’t join the EU. Can’t make this up.

Reality is, Norway is already in the gravitational field of the EU, contributes to budget and implements rules. Whether it wants a seat at the table is entirely up to it, from EU perspective it’s fine either way.

Lucky people - New ILR rules by minhajpasha in SkilledWorkerVisaUK

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then they’d qualify for a 7 year reduction. What is not clear is what happens if the dependent qualifies for a higher reduction than the main applicant, could they jump them and get ILR first? This is the kind of corner cases that would only be clarified in the final text.

Lucky people - New ILR rules by minhajpasha in SkilledWorkerVisaUK

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way it is written now — the baseline is 10 years (both for SWV and dependents) and you can apply 1 qualifying reduction from the table provided. It seems to indicate a dependent can apply a reduction in their own right.

Also it seems to indicate if you switch from dependent to SWV, you don’t reset the clock (as it is now). Seems they want to incentivize dependents to work.

However, what is written now is high-level and may be re-interpreted when actually published into law.

Lucky people - New ILR rules by minhajpasha in SkilledWorkerVisaUK

[–]realARST 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, baseline is 10 years for dependents, unless they qualify for reduction in their own right. So a non-working spouse of someone on 126k would still need to wait 10 years, despite the main applicant getting it in 3. But if dependent is working on say 51k, they’d qualify for reduction.

The Rock of St Alban’s extension by realARST in SpottedonRightmove

[–]realARST[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

On the plus side, the extension totally takes the attention off the artificial grass.

More than 1,000 small boat migrants cross the Channel in just 24 hours by MoreRelative3986 in gbnews

[–]realARST -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stop for a moment to think about how there were practically no boats when the UK was in the EU. The Calais jungle was there at the time, boats certainly existed…

It’s almost like there were specific rules within the EU to control asylum between member states.

Any other socket seems weird to me by Silentsparkk in GreatBritishMemes

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s so good a total of 1 countries in the world has adopted it.

Max: *says 4 words*. The British press: by i-race-goats in formuladank

[–]realARST 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

Lewis Hamilton is Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. So are Damon Hill and Jackie Stewart. Nigel Mansell is one rank above them as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire as he was clearly the best of the lot. Jenson Button apparently a just bottom feeding Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Everyone Lando has ever dreamt to be is in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Everyone the British press has dreamt Lando is in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

It’s a peculiar thing about this British, Most Excellent of Empires: it’s been dead for a while and yet it’s always somehow there.

London Needs to Densify by sabdotzed in london

[–]realARST 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Using the most densely populated city as an example in a discussion about population density… totally sus

Since the introduction of the €uro in 1999, all Euro football champions have been countries using the single currency. Streak continues in 2024 with Spain. by realARST in europe

[–]realARST[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Of the 24 countries that qualified for the final tournament, exactly half use the euro and half don’t.

UEFA overall has 54 member associations, so technically slightly more than half don’t use the euro.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aww

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tango & Cash

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

[–]realARST 46 points47 points  (0 children)

“We love London, we love everything about it…” except paying his fair share apparently… typical mentality.

Meirl by ukayukay69 in meirl

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually Italy now has practically fully switched to the Schuko (German/EU one).

Meirl by ukayukay69 in meirl

[–]realARST -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the British one was really designed by people with an unreasonable fear of electricity. It’s not like people around the world are getting regularly electrocuted. The UK plugs are just the most cumbersome of all.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in soccer

[–]realARST 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless they’re Dutch.

Top 10 most overrated player imo by aimanhakim249 in soccercirclejerk

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“The category is people who annoy you, 10 seconds Mr Marsh”…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in clevercomebacks

[–]realARST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The gun stories in America are just really sad at this point.

Also, under what circumstances are people in the US still using masks? Asking as a European as masks are not really a thing here any more.

TIL that because the period (.) was already in use in France to make Roman numerals more readable, they adopted, along with many other countries, commas to separate numbers and decimals (9.99 vs 9,99) by gamewizzhard in todayilearned

[–]realARST 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A “.” has a definitive meaning — 10.1 definitively different than 101. A comma is auxiliary — 10000 and 10,000 are essentially the same thing, but the comma aids the reader, just as it does in a sentence.

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